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Novxanı

Municipality in Absheron, Azerbaijan

Novkhany Novxanı
Municipality
40°31′47″N 49°46′46″E / 40.52972°N 49.77944°E / 40.52972; 49.77944
Country	Azerbaijan
District	Absheron
Population ^{[citation needed]}
• Total	4,468
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (AZT)

Novxanı (also, Novkhany, Novkhana, Novxana, and Nobkhana) is a village and municipality in the Absheron District of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 4,468. The name means new house in Persian language.

Notable natives

Azim Azimzade — painter and graphic artist, founder of Azerbaijani satirical graphics, People's Artist of Azerbaijan SSR (1927).
Lotfi A. Zadeh — American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, founder of the theory of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic.
Mahammad Amin Rasulzade — statesman, scholar, public figure and one of the founders of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, the chairman of the Azerbaijani National Council (1918).
Mehdi Huseynzade — legendary guerrilla fighter in Yugoslavia and Italy during World War II, Hero of the Soviet Union.
Suleyman Rustam — poet, the People's Poet of Azerbaijan SSR (1960).
Suriyya Aliyev — highly respected elder, local mosque keeper and widowed grandfather of 7 (2016).